Yesterday, Watkins and I went for another canal walk. Due to the weather being nice and a bank holiday weekend, it was very busy. The tow path seemed to be overrun with dogs, children and bikes – all of which were very annoying. This being the case, along with Watkins having to work the night shift at Sky, we decided to only walk 6 miles.
Today has been a very lazy Bank Holiday Monday. I haven’t left the flat. Instead I played a bit of Fifa 07, spent too much time chatting on MSN and compiled a 35 hour playlist of all my favourite tunes from a ridiculously large MP3 collection.
Here are some photos from yesterday’s walk.
Mr. Watkins daringly enters the aqueduct
Can someone pass the Peri Peri?
A random man caught on camera, just before falling into the canal
Football is a funny game – it can be totally unpredictable. Take for example Team Bath. Their squad not only receives sponsorship, but also money from the UK taxpayer, enabling their players to train every day, effectively making them fulltime professionals.
With that in mind, you would expect them to succeed in a league where all their rival teams are made up of part time players who make a living from plumbing, teaching and various other everyday trades.
Even though the university associated Team Bath have all that backing, they still finished second in the league to the mighty Bath City, and today lost the play off final to Maidenhead United – in their home ground (well Bath City’s).
I went down to Twerton Park this afternoon to cheer on Maidenhead, hoping and praying that they would win and condemn the “students” to another year in the British Gas Business League. I was not disappointed. On a beautiful afternoon, Maidenhead United taught the wannabe players a lesson in football. The game finished 1-0, but Team Tax were well and truly beaten.
At full time, Maidenhead and Bath City fans celebrated in unison on the pitch, while Team Bath players slumped off to the changing rooms to eat Pot Noodles (or whatever students have nowadays). I happily shook the hands of various Maidenhead fans, who thanked me for the support and rightly pointed out that we’ll meet again next year – unlike Team Bath.
Well done Maidenhead! See you next season!
Team Bath – enjoy another season in the Mickey Mouse league. Pity for you that you are not allowed to re-sit the final – you were rubbish! :o)
So Leeds United went into administration this afternoon, only to be bought by their chairman Ken Bates. A tad confusing and an area I won’t pretend to fully understand. One thing you can be sure of – Ken Bates is a tight fisted old man who won’t have been ripped off. At the same time, some poor sucker will be out of pocket as a result of today’s events.
I’m happy that the majority of the debts have gone and Leeds have survived, but a tad sad I didn’t get chance to make a bid for the club myself. I’ve just emptied my wallet and have a grand sum of £7.31. Had I known about the plans, I would have offered the administrators my fortune.
Things I would do differently if I owned Leeds United
1) Hire a jockey and his horse to take training. Some of those lazy players could get chased with a whip around the training ground.
2) Sack the stewards that parade the stands and harass the fans week in, week out. I would then buy parrots and train them to fly up and down the Kop asking the fans “Can you sit down please? Can you sit down please? Can you sit down please? Can you sit down please?” – Not too different from what happens at the moment.
3) I would also replace the gobby git on the Elland Road tannoy. I’m not one to put a man out of work though – I would make him a steward and stick him with the away fans. He can entertain them with his jibber jabber.
4) Apparently the Leeds United Ladies are playing rather well. My plan would be to get them playing in the men’s first team. I would need to persuade them to have a sex change though.
Thank you to Manchester United Football Club for giving me the biggest laugh of the season – losing 3-0 to AC Milan.
Thank you to Alex Ferguson for playing an injured Nemanja Vidic, an incompetent Darren Fletcher and a useless John O’Shea against the world super powers of Kaka and Gattuso.
Thank you to Cristiano Ronaldo for trying your party tricks on the grass of the San Siro and failing to play any decent football. Your antics did not impress the Milan defence, who dealt with you easily.
Thank you to Rio Ferdinand and Alan Smith. Thank you for leaving Leeds and giving the Whites a lot of transfer money. Injured or just crap, you couldn’t make the starting XI of a poor, losing side.
Thank you to the Manchester United fans. Your arrogance has annoyed everyone over the years, but last night it was all worthwhile to see you truly humiliated by a far better side.
Leeds may be in League One, but you played like them last night.
Can you hear ManU sing? I can’t hear a fucking thing!
More news on TalkTalk. Following my threatening e-mail to the company’s chairman, Charles Dunstone, I had a couple of messages left on both my mobile and landline answer phone.
The messages came from one of Mr. Dunstone’s top dogs and contained a grovelling apology for the delay, along with a confession – due to unforeseen circumstances, my broadband will not be live until 13th May! Call me sceptical, but I don’t think they ever intended to get me on before mid-May. I promptly asked to cancel EVERYTHING, to which they accepted.
I then called BT, saying all was forgiven, and begged them to take me back. They agreed. I also signed up for their broadband service. It’s a little more expensive than most ISP’s, but after careful research (something I didn’t do before signing up to TalkTalk), they seem to be very good.
Following the cancellation, I received another grovelling message from TalkTalk, this time asking if there was anything they could possibly do in order to assist me with my return to BT. After a further telephone call with them this morning, I have had my cancellation formally accepted, an apology issued and all outstanding charges I owe (about £34) wiped out.
Assuming everything goes to plan and I return to BT smoothly, I will be a happy bunny. I retract my statements about Charles Dunstone being a crook. Based upon my own personal experience, I cannot retract my opinion on the overall TalkTalk service. Why did I have to resort to contacting the chairman of a major company in order to get a result? I found TalkTalk to be unprofessional, unreliable and a farce. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. But that’s just me. Maybe they have millions of very satisfied customers…
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